Short Analytical Web Note 3/2015

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1 Short Analytical Web Note 3/2015

2 This analytical web-note contains an extensive update of the main demographic trends for the EU and a labour-market supplement which outlines the potential consequences of the forthcoming demographic change (declining working-age population) on the EU's growth perspective. The was produced by Silvia Andueza Robustillo, Veronica Corsini, Piotr Juchno and Monica Marcu of DG under the supervision of Adam Wronski. The supplement was provided by Jörg Peschner of DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion under the supervision of Nicolas Gibert-Morin. Views expressed by the author on the supplement "Potential growth implications of demographic change" are those of the author and do not necessarily correspond to those of the European Commission. portal: Employment and social analysis portal: Data extracted from online database in May 2015 (unless otherwise noted) Contact: Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission may be held responsible for the use that may be made of the information contained in this publication. The opinions expressed are those of the authors only and do not necessarily represent the European Commission s official position. Europe Direct is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union Freephone number (*): (*) Certain mobile telephone operators do not allow access to numbers or these calls may be billed. More information on the European Union is available on the Internet (http://europa.eu). Cataloguing data as well as an abstract can be found at the end of this publication. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2015 ISBN ISSN doi: / European Union, 2015 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. June 2015 I 2

3 Table of Contents Table of Contents... 3 Introduction... 4 Population change and age structure... 4 The EU-28 population rose by 1.7 million during Net migration as the main driver of population growth in the EU Population increased in 15 EU Member States... 6 Population ageing continues in the EU Population age structure on 1 January Past and current population ageing trends in the EU Fertility...11 Just below 1.6 live births per woman in the EU-28 in Mean age at childbirth and mean age at birth of the first child are increasing...12 Over 80% of live births in the EU were first and second children in % of births in the EU-28 in 2013 were to mothers of national citizenship...15 Mortality...16 Life expectancy is increasing...16 Gains in life expectancy at older ages...19 Falling infant mortality...21 Migration and migrant population...22 Immigration to the EU-28 from outside it was 1.7 million in On 1 January 2014 the non-eu-national population of the EU-28 was 19.6 million while the non-eu-born population was 33.5 million...25 Acquisitions of citizenship up by 20% in Asylum...31 Number of asylum applicants in the EU-28 jumped to more than More than asylum-seekers granted protection out of 3 persons granted protection in the EU-28 was Syrian...35 Residence permits...36 More than 2.3 million first residence permits issued in the EU Ukrainians granted most first residence permits in the EU Marriages and divorces...39 Fewer marriages, more divorces...39 A rise in births outside marriage...40 Mean age at first marriage increases...41 Implications of demographic change on employment growth...43 Introduction...43 Growth potential at EU level...44 Growth potential at Member State level...48 Conclusion...52 References...53 June 2015 I 3

4 Introduction This 1 report gives an overview of recent demographic trends in the European Union, based on data. compiles, monitors and analyses a wide range of demographic data, including national and regional statistics on populations and various demographic factors (births, deaths, marriages and divorces, immigration and emigration, asylum and residence permits) that influence the size, structure and specific characteristics of these populations. Population change and the structure of the population are gaining political, economic, social and cultural importance. This is because policymakers closely follow demographic trends in population growth, fertility, mortality, migration, etc. The last chapter of this report is a supplement provided by DG EMPL 2. It is forwardlooking as it deals with the potential impact of demographic change on employment growth and hence economic expansion. Population change and age structure The current demographic situation in the EU-28 is characterised in general by population growth. 3 However, while the population of the EU-28 as a whole increased in 2013, the population in 13 EU-28 Member States declined. The EU-28 population rose by 1.7 million during 2013 On 1 January 2014 the population of the EU-28 was estimated at million, up by 1.7 million people from 1 January The growth was faster than the year before, when the population increased by 1.1 million. The number of inhabitants in the EU-28 increased from million in 1960 by more than 100 million up to However, the rate of population growth has been gradually slowing down in recent decades. Between 1994 and 2014, the EU-28 population increased on average by about 1.3 million a year compared to an annual average of around 3.3 million a year in the 1960s. Chart 1: Population on 1 January, EU-28, Source: (online data code: demo_gind) Note: Excluding French overseas departments up to and including is the statistical authority of the EU and a Directorate General of the European Commission(http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat). 2 DG EMPL is the European Commission's Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (http://ec.europa.eu/social/). 3 Population change or population growth in a given year is the difference between the population size on 1 January of that year and 1 January of the following year. It consists of two components: natural change (the difference between the number of live births and the number of deaths) and net migration (the difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants). For the population change statistics, produces net migration figures by calculating the difference between total population change and natural change. This is referred to in this chapter as 'net migration plus statistical adjustment'. The statistical adjustment corresponds to all changes in the population that cannot be classified as births, deaths, immigration or emigration, and may sometimes offset the net migration. June 2015 I 4

5 Net migration as the main driver of population growth in the EU-28 In 2013, natural increase (the positive difference between live births and deaths) contributed 5% (0.08 million) to population growth in the EU-28. This means that 95% of the growth came from net migration 4, which continued to be the main determinant of population growth, accounting for 1.6 million in Compared to 2012, the natural change halved and net migration doubled. In terms of crude rates 5, the population growth of 2.1 per 1000 persons in 2012 was due to a natural increase of 0.4 and net migration of 1.7. In 2013, natural increase accounted for 0.2 and net migration for 3.2 of the total population growth of 3.4 per 1000 persons. The contribution of net migration plus statistical adjustment to total population growth has exceeded the proportion of natural increase since 1992 (see Chart 2). It peaked in 2003 (95% of total population growth), decreased to 57% in 2009 and peaked again at 95% in Conversely, the proportion of natural change in total population growth declined from 43% in 2009 to 5% in Chart 2: Population change by component (annual crude rates), EU-28, Source: (online data code: demo_gind) Note: Excluding French overseas departments up to and including The low contribution of natural increase to total population growth is the result of two factors. The first is the considerable increase in net migration in the EU-28 since the mid-1980s. The second is the fall in the number of births and increase in the number of deaths. The gap between live births and deaths (see Chart 3) has considerably narrowed since Since the number of deaths is expected to increase as the babyboom generation continues to age and assuming that fertility remains low, a negative natural change (more deaths than births) cannot be ruled out in the future. The extent of population decline or growth will therefore depend on the contribution made by migration. 4 Net migration plus statistical adjustment. See footnote 2. 5 The crude rate is calculated as the ratio of the number of events to the average population in a given year. For easier presentation, it is multiplied by 1000; the result is therefore expressed per 1000 persons (of the average population). June 2015 I 5

6 Chart 3: Live births and deaths, EU-28, Source: (online data code: demo_gind) Note: Excluding French overseas departments up to and including Population increased in 15 EU Member States The number of inhabitants in individual Member States on 1 January 2014 ranged from 80.8 million in Germany to 0.4 million in Malta. Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy comprised more than half (54%) of the total EU-28 population on 1 January Although the population of the EU-28 as a whole increased during 2013, population growth was unevenly distributed across the Member States. The population of 15 Member States increased, while it fell in 13 (see Table 1 and Table 3). Luxembourg, Italy, Malta and Sweden recorded the highest population growth rates in 2013 (more than 9 per 1000 persons), more than twice the EU-28 average of 3.4 per 1000 persons. The largest relative population declines were recorded in Latvia (-11.1 per 1000 persons), Lithuania (-9.6) and Cyprus (-9.1 per 1000 persons). Table 1: Demographic balance, 2013 (thousand) Source: (online data code: demo_gind) Analysing the two components of population change at national level, eight types of population change can be distinguished, by growth or decline and the relative June 2015 I 6

7 proportion of natural change and net migration - see Table 2 for the full typology. In 2013, the highest rates of natural increase were recorded in Ireland (8.6 per 1000 persons), Cyprus (4.9) and Luxembourg (4.2). The largest negative natural changes occurred in Bulgaria (-5.2 per 1000 persons), Latvia (-4.0) and Lithuania (-3.9). In relative terms, Italy (19.7 per 1000 persons) and Luxembourg (19.0) had the highest positive net migration rates in Cyprus (-14.0 per 1000 persons), Latvia (-7.1) and Greece (-6.4) recorded the highest negative net migration rates. Table 2: Contribution of natural change and net migration (plus statistical adjustment) to population change, 2013 Source: (online data code: demo_gind) Of the 15 Member States where the population increased in 2013, both natural increase and net migration contributed to population growth in 11. In Ireland natural increase was the driver of population growth, while net migration was negative. Population growth was due solely to migration in Germany, Italy and Austria, while their natural change was negative. Table 3: Crude rates of population change, (change per 1000 persons) Source: (online data code: demo_gind) In Member States recorded a negative total population change. In six cases, this was mainly due to negative net migration (Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Portugal) supplemented by the negative natural change. Population decline was mostly driven by negative natural change supplemented by negative net migration in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia and Romania. In Hungary it was due solely to negative natural change, which offset positive net migration. In Spain June 2015 I 7

8 and Cyprus it was due solely to negative net migration, which offset positive natural change. Population ageing continues in the EU-28 Population ageing affects the entire EU, due to increasing life expectancy and consistently low levels of fertility over recent decades. The trend is expected to continue in the coming decades. Population age structure on 1 January 2014 Table 4 shows the population distribution by major age groups in the EU-28. On 1 January 2014, the young population (0-14 years old) accounted for 15.6%, the population aged (considered to be the working-age population for the purpose of this publication) for 65.9% and the population aged 65 or over for 18.5%. Across the Member States, Ireland had the largest young population (0-14 years old) (22.0%) and Germany the smallest (13.1%). Italy had the highest proportion (21.4%) of older people and Ireland had the lowest (12.6%). The median age of the EU-28 population on 1 January 2014 was This means that half of the EU-28 population today is 42.2 years old or older, while half is younger. The median age of the population in the Member States ranges from 36.0 in Ireland to 45.6 in Germany (see Table 5). This confirms the relatively young and relatively old population structures in these two countries. Age dependency ratios are used as indicators of the potential support young and/or older people (65 or over) need from the working-age population. The ratios are expressed in terms of the relative size of the young and/or older population compared with the working-age population. Table 4: Population age structure by major age groups, 1 January 2014 Source: (online data code: demo_pjan and demo_pjanind) On 1 January 2014, the old-age dependency ratio (population aged 65 or over in relation to the population aged 15-64) in the EU-28 was 28.1%. This means that the EU had just over 3.5 people of working age for every person aged 65 or over. The oldage dependency ratio in the Member States ranged from 19.0% in Slovakia to 33.1% in Italy. June 2015 I 8

9 The total age dependency ratio (calculated as the ratio of children aged 14 and under and older people aged 65 or over to the population aged 15-64) was 51.8% in the EU- 28, equivalent to about two working-age people for each dependent person. On 1 January 2014, Slovakia had the lowest total age dependency ratio (40.6%) and France had the highest (57.6%). The population pyramids presented in Chart 5 show the structure of the population by sex and by five-year age group. Each bar corresponds to the proportion of the given sex and age group in the total population (men and women combined). The EU-28 population pyramid on 1 January 2014 is narrow at the bottom, becoming more like a rhomboid due to the baby boomer cohorts resulting from the high fertility rates in several European countries in the mid-1960s. The baby boomers continue to represent a major part of the working-age population. The first, born over a period of years, are now reaching retirement age, as the comparison with the 1994 population pyramid shows. The baby boom bulge is moving up the population pyramid, leaving the middle (15-64 working-age population) and the base (0-14) narrower. Past and current population ageing trends in the EU-28 Population ageing is a long-term trend that began several decades ago. Visible in the development of the age structure of the EU population, it is reflected by an increasing proportion of older people coupled with a declining proportion of working-age people in the total population. To illustrate this trend, the evolution of the population structure between 1994 and 2014 is analysed below. Between 1994 and 2014, the proportion of older people (65 or over) increased by 4.0 percentage points in the EU. This increase came at the expense of a decline of 3.0 percentage points in the proportion of younger people (0-14) and of 1.0 percentage point in the working-age population (15-64) (see Chart 4). Table 5: Population age structure indicators, 1 January 1994 and 1 January 2014 Source: (online data code: demo_pjanind) Note: EU-27 instead of EU-28 in 1994, excluding the French overseas departments. June 2015 I 9

10 Chart 4: Population aged 65 or over on 1 January (% of the total population) Source: (online data code: demo_pjanind) Note: EU-27 instead of EU-28 in 1994, excluding the French overseas departments. HR: 2001 instead of Chart 5: Population pyramids, EU-28, 1 January 1994 and 1 January 2014 (% of the total population) Source: (online data code: demo_pjan) Note: EU-27 instead of EU-28 in 1994, excluding the French overseas departments. Since the proportion of older people increased between 1994 and 2014, the top of the 2014 age pyramid is broader. Due primarily to the gains in longevity, this is known as 'ageing at the top' of the population pyramid, as a result of the significant increase in life expectancy at birth recorded in all EU-28 Member States over recent decades. The consistently low levels of fertility over recent decades have contributed to population ageing, with fewer births leading to a decline in the proportion of young people in the total population. This, known as 'ageing at the bottom' of the population pyramid, can be observed in the narrowing base of the population pyramids between 1994 and 2014 (see Chart 5). Chart 6: Median age of population on 1 January, EU-28, Source: (online data code: demo_pjanind) Note: EU-27 before EU-27 excludes French overseas departments before June 2015 I 10

11 The increase in the median age of the EU-28 population also provides an illustration of population ageing. In the EU, the median age of the total population rose continuously from 36.2 in 1994 to 42.2 in 2014, as Chart 6 shows. It increased in all Member States over that period (Chart 7). Chart 7: Median age of population on 1 January Source: (online data code: demo_pjanind) Note: EU-27 instead of EU-28 in 1994, excluding French overseas departments. HR: 2001 instead of Fertility Fertility steadily declined in the EU from the mid-1960s to the turn of the century. At the beginning of the last decade, however, the total fertility rate in the EU-28 showed some signs of increasing again, until Since 2011, there has been a decline again. Five million children were born in the EU-28 in This corresponds to a crude birth rate (the number of live births per 1000 persons) of 10. The highest annual total for the EU-28 was recorded in 1964, with 7.7 million live births. From the 1960s up to the beginning of the 21st century, the number of live births in the EU-28 declined from 7.5 million to a low of 5.0 million in 2002 (see Chart 3). This was followed by a modest rebound in the number of live births, with 5.5 million children born in 2008, followed by further annual declines between 2009 and Just below 1.6 live births per woman in the EU-28 in 2013 In recent decades Europeans have generally been having fewer children, which partly explains the slowdown in the EU-28 s population growth. The main indicator of fertility is the total fertility rate. This is the mean number of children that would be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she were to pass through her childbearing years conforming to the age-specific fertility rates of a given year. A total fertility rate of around 2.1 live births per woman is considered to be the replacement level the average number of live births per woman required to keep the population size constant in the absence of inward or outward migration. A total fertility rate below 1.3 live births per woman is described as 'lowest-low fertility'. The total fertility rate, used as an indicator for the fertility level, is comparable across countries since it takes into account changes in the size and structure of the population. Table 6: Total fertility rates and mean age of women at childbirth, EU-28, Source: (online data code: demo_find) The total fertility rate in the EU-28 has declined to well below the replacement level in recent decades. As Table 6 shows, it was 1.47 live births per woman in There was subsequently a slight increase in most Member States, with the EU-28 average increasing to 1.62 live births per woman up to 2010, before falling to 1.55 in June 2015 I 11

12 Table 7 shows the total fertility rate in the EU for selected years. It declined considerably between 1980 and , to far below the replacement level in many countries. In 2000 it had fallen below 1.3 in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Slovenia and Slovakia. After bottoming out between 2000 and 2003, it has increased in most Member States from 2013, with rates above 1.3 in all Member States except Spain, Poland and Portugal. Table 7: Total fertility rates, selected years Source: (online data code: demo_find) In the past 50 years, total fertility rates in the Member States have in general been converging. In 1960 and 1980, the disparity between the highest (Ireland both in 1960 and in 1980) and the lowest (Estonia in 1960, Luxembourg in 1980) was around 1.8, while in 1970 it was around 2.0. By 1990 this difference had fallen to 1.1 (between Cyprus and Italy). Since 2000 it has fallen to around 0.8, France and Portugal representing the two extremes in Ireland and France continued to have the highest fertility rates for the most recent period for which data is available (2013), with slightly under 2.0 live births per woman. The lowest fertility rates in 2013 were recorded in Spain (1.27 live births per woman), Poland (1.29) and Portugal (1.21 live births per woman). Among the countries for which 1990 data are available, only six Member States (Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Slovenia), had a 2013 total fertility rate equal to or higher than their 1990 rate. It fell by more than 30% between 1990 and 2013 in Cyprus, Malta, Poland and Slovakia. In absolute terms, the decline was steepest in Cyprus, from 2.41 in 1990 to 1.30 in Mean age at childbirth and mean age at birth of the first child are increasing Another reason that partly explains the decline in fertility rates in the EU is the decision of many parents to delay having children. While only a relatively short time June 2015 I 12

13 series is available for the EU-28 as a whole, Table 6 shows that the mean age of women at childbirth continued to rise in the last 10 years between 2003 and 2013, when it stood at 30.3 years. On the other hand, the slight increase in the total fertility rate in recent years until 2010 may partly be due to a catching-up process following postponement of the decision to have children. When women give birth later in life, the total fertility rate tends to decline at first, before subsequently recovering. A more precise indicator for postponing having children is the mean age of mothers at the birth of the first child. This indicator is only available for all Member States, and so for the EU-28, since In 2013, on average women in the EU were 28.7 years old (Table 8) when they became mothers for the first time. The mean age of mothers at the birth of their first child varied significantly between the Member States, with a gap of almost five years between the youngest and the oldest. The youngest average ages of mothers at the birth of their first child were recorded in Bulgaria (25.7 years), Romania (25.8), Latvia (26.1), Estonia (26.5), Poland and Lithuania (both 26.7) and Slovakia (26.9). Women were oldest on average when giving birth to their first child in Italy (30.6 years), Spain (30.4), Luxembourg (30.0) and Greece (29.9). Looking at the data on the mean age at birth of the first child in 2003 and 2013 for the countries for which the information is available for both years, an increase over 2 years is observed in the Czech Republic, Cyprus and Lithuania, and of about 0.5 years in the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden. In France, the indicator fell slightly in the last 10 years. Table 8: Mean age of women at childbirth and at the birth of first child Source: (online data code: demo_find) Note: EU-28, mean age of women at birth of first child estimated in DK: 2012 instead of Chart 8 shows that some of the countries with the highest total fertility rate also have a high mean age for women at the birth of their first child. Four different groups of countries can be broadly identified based on the EU-28 total fertility rate and the mean age at first child in One group is composed of Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden, where both the total fertility rate and the mean age at first child are above the EU-28 total fertility rate. Another group is made up of most of the countries that joined the EU after 2004: in these countries both the total fertility rate June 2015 I 13

14 and the mean age of mothers at the birth of their first child are below the EU-28 values. The third group of countries (Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Austria and Portugal) have mothers who are older at the birth of their first child and a lower total fertility rate than the average. Luxembourg has a total fertility rate equal to that of the EU-28 but a higher mean age of women at the birth of their first child. The fourth group (Belgium, France, Lithuania, Finland and the United Kingdom) has a higher total fertility rate than the average but mothers are younger having their first child. Slovenia s total fertility rate is equal to that of the EU-28 but the mean age of women at the birth of their first child is slightly lower. Chart 8: Mean age of women at birth of first child and total fertility rate, 2013 Source: (online data code: demo_find) Note: DK: 2012 instead of 2013 for mean age at birth of first child. Over 80% of live births in the EU were first and second children in 2013 At EU level in 2013, 82.6% of live births were first and second children. Births of third children accounted for 11.8% and of fourth or subsequent children for 5.6% (Table 9). For the first child, the percentages ranged from 55.3% of total live births in 2013 in Portugal to 37.9% in Ireland. For the second child, they ranged from 31.0% in Romania to 37.6% in the Czech Republic. The figures for third children were above 15% in five Member States, with a maximum of 17.6% of total live births in Ireland. However, in seven countries it was below 10%, with the minimum in Bulgaria (7.8%). Across the Member States, the highest proportion of fourth or subsequent births out of total births was recorded in Finland (10.4%), followed by the United Kingdom (9.5%), Romania (9.4%) and Ireland (9.0%). June 2015 I 14

15 Table 9: Proportion of live births by birth order in the EU Member States (%) Source: (online data code: demo_find) Note: EU-28 is estimated. DK: 2012 instead of % of births in the EU-28 in 2013 were to mothers of national citizenship Besides birth order, another breakdown by which the series of live births in the EU can be analysed using data available in is the mother s citizenship. In 2013, live births to mothers of national citizenship were 86%, while those to mothers of foreign citizenship represented 14% of the total live births. This ranges from 0.01% in Romania to 63% in Luxembourg (Chart 9). Four Member States (Belgium, Ireland, Cyprus and Austria) have a proportion of foreign mothers between 20% and 30%, while two other Member States besides Romania have proportions less than 1% (Bulgaria and Slovakia) The proportion of births to mothers of foreign citizenship has been stable in the past few years. Chart 9: Live births by mother s citizenship Source: (online data code: demo_faczc) June 2015 I 15

16 Mortality Over the past number of years, the annual number of deaths in the EU-28 has remained fairly stable at around 5 million. In 2013, some 5 million people died in the EU-28 this was broadly in line with the annual number of deaths recorded over the previous four decades. A peak was reached in 1993 with 5.03 million deaths. The crude death rate, the number of deaths per 1000 persons, was 9.9 in the EU-28 in 2013 (see Chart 3). The most commonly used indicator for analysing mortality is life expectancy at birth: the mean number of years a person can expect to live at birth if subjected to current mortality conditions throughout the rest of his or her life. It is a simple but very powerful way of illustrating the trend in mortality. The total number of deaths depends on the size of the cohorts reaching the end of their lifecycle and on mortality rates. Economic development and the improvement in environmental conditions, better lifestyles, advances in healthcare and medicine, including reduced infant mortality, have resulted in a continuous increase in life expectancy at birth across Europe during the last century. This has been going on for longer in Europe than in most other parts of the world, giving the EU-28 the highest life expectancy in the world. Over the past 50 years life expectancy at birth has increased by about 10 years for men and women in the EU-28. Further gains will be achieved mostly from the reduction in mortality at older ages. Besides the reduction in fertility, the gradual reduction in mortality is the main factor contributing to the ageing of the population in the EU-28. While life expectancy is increasing in all Members States, differences still exist between and within countries (for example, between the sexes). Life expectancy is increasing Life expectancy in the EU-28 is generally higher than in most other parts of the world. Life expectancy at birth in the EU-28 was estimated at 80.6 years in years for women and 77.8 years for men. This indicator is only available for the last 10 years for the EU-28 as a whole, but even this short period saw an increase in life expectancy of 2.5 years for women and 3.2 years for men (see Table 10). Table 10: Life expectancy at birth, EU-28, Source: (online data code: demo_mlexpec) Nevertheless, there are significant differences in life expectancy at birth are nevertheless observed between the Member States, as Chart 10 shows. In 2013 Lithuania had the lowest life expectancy for men (68.5) and Italy had the highest (80.3). For women, the range was narrower, from 77.6 in Bulgaria to 86.1 in Spain. To compare, in 2003 Latvia had the lowest life expectancy for men (65.3) and Sweden (78) the highest, and Romania had the lowest life expectancy for women (74.8) and Spain (83) the highest. In the 10 years between 2003 and 2013, the increase in life expectancy at birth for men in the EU Member States ranged from a minimum of 2.2 years in Greece, Lithuania and Sweden to a maximum of 6.4 years in Estonia. For women, the increase ranged from 1.3 years in Sweden to 4.4 years in Estonia. In 2003, the differences between the highest and lowest life expectancies amounted to 12.6 years for men and 8.2 for women. In 2013, the differences were 11.7 years for men and 7.5 for women. Thus, while life expectancy has been increasing in all countries, it has increased slightly more in some of the countries where it was lower. June 2015 I 16

17 Chart 10: Life expectancy at birth, men and women, 2003 and 2013 Source: (online data code: demo_mlexpec) In 2013, the gender gap at birth in the EU-28 was 5.5 years of life expectancy (see Chart 11), with women living longer than men in all Member States. However, the gap varied substantially between Member States. In 2013, the largest difference between the sexes was found in Lithuania (11.0 years) and the smallest in Sweden (3.8 years). In the Baltic States, women can expect to live around 10 years longer than men. The gender gap is less than 5 years in nine Member States. In the 10 years up to 2013 the gender gap decreased, with the exception of Bulgaria, Cyprus and Malta where it increased (respectively by 0.3 years, 0.5 and 0.1 years) and Greece, where it remained constant. The reduction in the gender gap at birth was largest in absolute terms in Estonia (from 10.8 years in 2003 to 8.8 years in 2013) and Luxembourg (from 6.1 years in 2003 to 4.1 years in 2013). In the EU-28, the gender gap at birth decreased from 6.2 years in 2003 to 5.5 in Chart 11: The gender gap (women men) in life expectancy at birth, 2003 and 2013 Source: (online data code: demo_mlexpec) As people live longer, demographic interest has shifted to the older generations. Table 11 shows life expectancy at 65 by sex for the EU-28 from 2003 to The increase in life expectancy for men and women at 65 was 2.1 and 2.0 years respectively. The gender gap at 65 fell slightly to 3.4 years in 2013, down from 3.5 years in 2003 and 3.6 in 2006, 2007 and June 2015 I 17

18 Table 11: Life expectancy at 65, EU-28, Source: (online data code: demo_mlexpec) Chart 12 shows life expectancy at 65 by country and by sex. In 2013, on reaching 65, the average man could expect to live another 13.9 (in Latvia) to 19.3 years (in France). The life expectancy of women at 65 was higher, ranging in 2011 from 17.9 years in Bulgaria to 23.6 years in France. Chart 12: Life expectancy at 65, men and women, 2003 and 2013 Source: (online data code: demo_mlexpec) Chart 13 shows the changes in the gender gap in life expectancy at 65 between 2003 and 2013 by country. Due to the faster increase in life expectancy for older women, the gender gap at 65 increased in more than half the countries concerned over that period. The largest increases were in Bulgaria and Romania: respectively +0.8 and +0.7 years between 2003 and The gender gap narrowed in the other Member States, by more than half a year in Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden. In 2013 the widest gender gaps were in the Baltic States, where women could expect to live around 5 years longer than men (5.1 years in Estonia and Lithuania, 4.7 years in Latvia). At the other end of the scale, the smallest gap, 2.4 years, was in the United Kingdom. June 2015 I 18

19 Chart 13: The gender gap (women men) in life expectancy at 65, 2003 and 2013 Source: (online data code: demo_mlexpec) Gains in life expectancy at older ages Improvements in life expectancy at birth are achieved by lowering mortality throughout the lifecycle. It is therefore useful, when analysing changes over time in life expectancy at birth, to estimate the contribution of specific age groups to changes in life expectancy. Table 12 gives the percentage breakdown of the changes in life expectancy, known as the 'Arriaga decomposition', for men and women between 1993 and 2013 by age groups, for each of the 28 Member States and the EU-28 as a whole. Gains in life expectancy by age group (Arriaga decomposition) In Table 12, the first column is the absolute difference between life expectancy at birth in 2013 and life expectancy at birth in 1993 (according to available data). The columns to its right show the percentage contribution from mortality decreases in the corresponding age group to the total increase in life expectancy: positive values indicate that mortality has declined in that age group, contributing to longer life expectancy. For example, taking the row for the EU-28, life expectancy for men at birth increased in total by 3.3 years: 4.5% of this increase is due to lower infant mortality (deaths before the first birthday), 1.7% is due to lower mortality at ages 1-9, and similarly for older age groups. Since the breakdown is based on comparing two years of data, results should be interpreted with caution for countries with a limited number of events. Moreover, such analysis of two years of life expectancy does not take into account possible changes of the indicator in the years in between. In most countries the decline in mortality was particularly marked for men in their sixties and seventies and for women over 60. For men more than 50% of the increase in life expectancy at birth is shown to occur between the ages of 60 and 79 in Denmark (50.2%), Ireland (59.0%), the Netherlands (54.2%), Sweden (50.9%) and the United Kingdom (58.6%). For women, the age group accounts for more than 50% of the life expectancy increase in Ireland (53.6%), Croatia (52.2%), Malta (56.9%), Slovakia (52.7%) and the United Kingdom (55.2%). The decline in mortality at ages 80 and over contributes more than one quarter to the increase in life expectancy at birth for women in Belgium, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Finland and Sweden. For men, the highest contribution in terms of reduction of mortality of the ages 80 and over can be observed in Greece (23.1%). June 2015 I 19

20 Table 12: Distribution of gains in life expectancy by age group, men and women, 1993 and 2013 Men Women Source: (online data code: demo_mlexpec) Note: EU-28, LV: 2002 instead of 1993; FR excludes French overseas departments; HR: 2001 instead of 1993; MT: 1995 instead of June 2015 I 20

21 On the other hand, in some of the other countries lower infant mortality (defined as deaths of children under one year) had a significant impact on life expectancy at birth between the two years analysed: over 15% for men in Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland and Romania and for women in Lithuania, Poland and Romania. A few countries showed smaller, but still substantial (>10%), gains from lower infant mortality for men or women: Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Croatia, Cyprus, Latvia, Hungary and Malta. In several Member States, particularly for men, the gains in life expectancy at birth from lower infant mortality are much more significant in percentage terms than the gains due to the older age group of people 80 and over. This is the case in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Romania and, to a lesser extent, in Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Falling infant mortality Life expectancy at birth is increased by the reduced probability of dying. As seen already when describing the gains in life expectancy by age group, one of the most significant changes in recent decades has been the fall in infant mortality rates. Around 19 thousand children died before reaching one year of age in the EU-28 in 2013; this figure was above 47 thousand in Chart 14: Infant mortality rate, 1993 and 2013 Source: (online data code: demo_minfind) The infant mortality rate fell during the 20 years from 1993 to 2013, from 8.7 to 3.7 deaths per 1000 live births (see Chart 14). The biggest falls were generally recorded in Member States with higher-than-average levels of infant mortality in The fall in the central and eastern Member States is greater than in the other Member States. Despite this, some Member States still had relatively high infant mortality rates in 2013, e.g. Romania (9.2 deaths per 1000 live births) and Bulgaria (7.3%). In 2013, Cyprus (1.6 deaths per 1000 live births), Finland (1.8%) and Estonia (2.1%) had the lowest infant mortality rates in the EU-28. June 2015 I 21

22 Migration and migrant population Immigration to the EU-28 from outside it was 1.7 million in 2013 During 2013, there were an estimated 1.7 million immigrants to the EU from countries outside it. In addition, 1.7 million people previously residing in an EU-28 Member State immigrated to another Member State. Thus, about 3.4 million people immigrated to one of the EU-28 Member States, while at least 2.8 million emigrants were reported to have left an EU-28 Member State. These figures do not represent the migration flows to/from the EU as a whole, since they also include flows between different EU Member States. Germany reported the largest number of immigrants (692.7 thousand) in 2013, followed by the United Kingdom (526 thousand), France (332.6 thousand), Italy (307.5 thousand) and Spain (280.8 thousand). Spain reported the highest number of emigrants in 2013 (532.3 thousand), followed by the United Kingdom (316.9 thousand), France (300.8 thousand), Poland (276.4 thousand) and Germany (259.3 thousand). A total of 16 of the EU-28 Member States reported more immigration than emigration in 2013, but in Bulgaria, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland, Portugal, Romania and the three Baltic Member States, emigrants outnumbered immigrants. Table 13: Immigration by citizenship, 2013 Source: (online data code: migr_imm1ctz) Note: The individual values do not add up to the total due to rounding and to exclusion of the unknown citizenship group from the table. Provisional data: IE and BG. Relative to the size of the resident population, Luxembourg recorded the highest proportion of immigrants in 2013 (39 immigrants per 1000 persons), followed by Malta (20) and Cyprus (15) see Chart 15. Cyprus (29 emigrants per 1000 persons) and Luxembourg (20 emigrants per 1000 persons) had the highest rates of emigration in June 2015 I 22

23 Chart 15: Immigrants, 2013 (per 1000 persons) Source: (online data codes: migr_imm1ctz and migr_pop1ctz) Note: Provisional data: IE and BG. In 2013, the relative proportion of national immigrants (immigrants with the citizenship of the Member State to which they are migrating) within the total number of immigrants was highest in Romania (90% of all immigrants), Lithuania (86%), Portugal (69%), Estonia (60%), Poland (60%), Latvia (58%) and Slovakia (52%). These were the only Member States to report that national immigration accounted for over 50% of the total - see Chart 16. By contrast, Italy, Austria and Luxembourg reported relatively low proportions of national immigrants, with national immigration in 2013 accounting for less than 10% of all immigration. Chart 16: Proportions of national and non-nationals in immigration, 2013 (% of all immigrants) Source: (online data code: migr_imm2ctz) Note: Provisional data: IE and BG. Information on citizenship has often been used to study immigrants with a foreign background. However, since citizenship can change over a person s lifetime, it is also useful to present information by country of birth. The relative proportion of nativeborn immigrants within the total number of immigrants was highest in Romania (78% of all immigrants), Lithuania (77%), Portugal (56%), Latvia (52%) and Poland (51%). In contrast, Luxembourg, Spain, Italy, Germany and Austria reported relatively low proportions of native-born immigrants, less than 10% of all immigration in June 2015 I 23

24 Table 14: Immigration by country of birth, 2013 Source: (online data code: migr_imm3ctb) Note: Provisional data: IE and BG. In terms of country of previous residence, in 2013 Luxembourg reported the highest proportion of immigrants from another Member State (91% of all immigrants), followed by Slovakia (79%) and Romania (81%). Bulgaria (22% of all immigrants) and Croatia (26%) had relatively low proportions of immigrants from another Member State see Table 15. Table 15: Immigration by previous country of residence, 2013 Source: (online data code: migr_imm5prv) Note: Provisional data: IE and BG. June 2015 I 24

25 Regarding the gender distribution of immigrants to the EU-28 in 2013, there were slightly more men than women (53% compared with 47%). The country with the highest proportion of male immigrants was Slovenia (61%); by contrast, Ireland had the highest proportion of female immigrants (52%). Chart 17: Immigrants by gender, 2013 (% of all immigrants) Source: (online data code: migr_imm2ctz) Note: Provisional data: IE and BG. Immigrants into EU-28 Member States in 2013 were, on average, younger than the population already resident in their country of destination. On 1 January 2014, the median age of the EU-28 population was 42. By contrast, the median age of immigrants into the EU-28 in 2013 was 28. Chart 18: Age structure of national and non-national immigrants, EU-28, 2013 Source: (online data code: migr_imm2ctz) On 1 January 2014 the non-eu-national population of the EU-28 was 19.6 million while the non-eu-born population was 33.5 million The number of people residing in an EU-28 Member State with citizenship of a non-eu country on 1 January was 19.6 million, 3.9% of the EU-28 population. In addition, there were 14.3 million people living in an EU-28 Member State on 1 January 2014 without the citizenship of that Member State but with the citizenship of another EU-28 Member State. There were 33.5 million people born outside the EU-28 living in an EU-28 Member State on 1 January 2014, while there were 17.9 million persons born in a different EU- June 2015 I 25

26 28 Member State from their country of residence. Only in Ireland, Hungary, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Cyprus was the number of persons born in other EU-28 Member State higher than the number born outside the EU-28. People born outside the EU-28 outnumbered persons without the citizenship of a Member State in all EU- 28 Member States except the Czech Republic. In absolute terms, the highest numbers of non-nationals on 1 January 2014 were found in Germany (7.0 million), the United Kingdom (5.0 million), Italy (4.9 million), Spain (4.7 million) and France (4.2 million). Non-nationals in these five Member States collectively represented 76% of the total number of non-nationals living in the EU-28, while the same five Member States had a 63% of the EU s population. Table 16: Non-national population by group of citizenship and foreign-born population by country of birth, 1 January 2014 Source: (online data codes: migr_pop1ctz and migr_pop3ctb) Note: Provisional data: IE, FR and PL. In relative terms, the EU-28 Member State with the highest proportion of nonnationals was Luxembourg, where they accounted for 45% of the total population. There was also a high proportion of non-nationals (10% or more of the resident population) in Cyprus, Latvia, Estonia, Austria, Ireland, Belgium and Spain. Chart 19: Proportion of non-nationals in the resident population, 1 January 2014 Source: (online data code: migr_pop1ctz) Note: Provisional data: IE, FR and PL. In most Member States the majority of non-nationals are citizens of non-eu countries (see Table 16). The opposite is true for Luxembourg, Slovakia, Ireland, Belgium, Cyprus, Hungary, the Netherlands, Malta and the United Kingdom. In the case of Latvia and Estonia, the proportion of citizens from non-eu countries is particularly high June 2015 I 26

27 due to the high number of recognised non-citizens (mainly former Soviet Union citizens, who are permanently resident in these countries but have not acquired any other citizenship). Table 17 gives a summary of the five main citizenships and countries of birth for the EU-28 Member States for which detailed data are available. Table 17: Main countries of citizenship and birth of the foreign/foreign-born population, 1 January 2014 (in absolute numbers and as a percentage of the total foreign/foreign-born population) Source: (online data codes: migr_pop1ctz and migr_pop3ctb) Notes: EL, FR, CY, LU, MT, AT, PL and HR not displayed because no detailed data by individual country are available. The individual values do not add up to the total due to rounding. Provisional data: IE. A recognised non-citizen is a person who is neither a citizen of the reporting country nor of any other country, and who has established links to the reporting country which include some but not all rights and obligations of full citizenship. Most of these persons were citizens of the former Soviet Union. June 2015 I 27

28 An analysis of the age structure of the population shows that, for the EU-28 as a whole, the foreign population was younger than the national population. The distribution by age of foreigners shows, compared with nationals, a greater proportion of relatively young working-age adults. In 2013, the median age of the national population in the EU-28 was 43, while the median age of non-nationals living in the EU was 35. Chart 20: Age structure of the national and non-national populations, EU-28, 1 January 2014 Source: (online data code: migr_pop2ctz) Acquisitions of citizenship up by 20% in 2013 The number of people acquiring the citizenship of an EU-28 Member State in 2013 was thousand, a 20% increase from In 2013, more people had acquired the citizenship of an EU Member State than in any other year from 2002 to Chart 21: Number of persons having acquired the citizenship of an EU Member State, EU-28, Source: (online data code: migr_acq) Note: includes Romanian data for Spain had the highest number of persons acquiring citizenship in 2013, at thousand (or 23% of the EU-28 total). The next highest levels of acquisition of citizenship were in the United Kingdom (207.5 thousand), Germany (115.1 thousand), Italy (100.7 thousand) and France (97.3 thousand). In absolute terms, the highest increases were observed in Spain (131.7 thousand more residents were granted Spanish citizenship than in 2012) as a result of a change in the source of information, concept and time reference. It was followed by Italy June 2015 I 28

29 (35.3 thousand), the United Kingdom (13.6 thousand) and Greece (9.2 thousand). On the contrary, the steepest declines in absolute terms were observed in Hungary (9.2 thousand fewer persons were granted Hungarian citizenship than in 2012) and the Netherlands (5 thousand). Chart 22: Naturalisation rate, 2013 (per 100 non-national residents) Source: (online data codes: migr_acq and migr_pop1ctz) Note: Data on the number of non-national residents refer to 1 January Provisional data: IE. Break in series: ES, RO. One commonly used indicator is the naturalisation rate. 6 This is the ratio between the total number of citizenships granted and the total number of non-national residents in a country at the beginning of the year. The EU-28 Member State with the highest naturalisation rate in 2013 was Sweden (7.6 acquisitions per 100 non-national residents), followed by Hungary and Portugal (with 6.5 and 5.9 acquisitions per 100 non-national residents respectively). Table 18: Persons having acquired the citizenship of the reporting country by groups of previous citizenship, 2013 Source: (online data code: migr_acq) Note: The individual values do not add up to the total due to rounding. Provisional data: IE. Break in series: ES, RO. 6 The 'naturalisation rate' should be used with caution because the numerator includes all modes of acquisition, not just naturalisations of eligible residing foreigners, and the denominator includes all foreigners and not the relevant population, i.e. foreigners who are eligible for naturalisation. June 2015 I 29

30 Some thousand citizens of non-eu countries residing in an EU-28 Member State acquired EU citizenship in 2013, a 21% increase from Citizens of non-eu countries accounted for 89% of all people who acquired citizenship of an EU-28 Member State in These new EU-28 citizens were mainly from Africa (26% of the total number of citizenships acquired), Asia (23%), North and South America (22%) and Europe (outside the EU-28, 17%). Citizens of the EU-28 Member States who acquired citizenship of another Member State amounted to 98.5 thousand persons, accounting for 10% of the total. In absolute terms, the main groups of EU-28 citizens acquiring citizenship of another EU-28 Member State were Romanians becoming citizens of Hungary (7 thousand) or Italy (4.4 thousand), Poles becoming citizens of the United Kingdom (6 thousand) or Germany (5.5 thousand), Italians becoming citizens of Germany (2.8 thousand) or Belgium (1.9 thousand), Greeks becoming citizens of France (3.9 thousand) and Portuguese becoming citizens of the United Kingdom (1.9 thousand). In Luxembourg and Hungary most new citizenships granted were to citizens of another EU Member State. In the case of Luxembourg, Portuguese citizens accounted for the highest proportion, followed by Italian, French, Belgian and German citizens. In the case of Hungary the EU nationals acquiring citizenship were almost exclusively Romanians. As in previous years, the largest group of new citizens in the EU Member States in 2013 were citizens of Morocco (86.5 thousand, 8.8% of all citizenships granted), followed by India (48.3 thousand, 4.9% of all citizenships granted), Turkey (46.5 thousand, or 4.7%), Colombia (42 thousand, or 4.3%), Albania (41.7 thousand, or 4.2%) and Ecuador (40.4 thousand, or 4.1%). Compared with 2012, the number of Moroccan citizens acquiring citizenship of an EU Member State increased by 46%. Most Moroccans acquired their new citizenship in Spain (35%), Italy (29%) and France (19%). Table 19: 30 main countries of previous citizenship, 2013 Source: (online data code: migr_acq) June 2015 I 30

31 Asylum Number of asylum applicants in the EU-28 jumped to more than Over a year, the number of asylum applicants from non-eu citizens registered in the European Union has increased by (+45%) to a peak of in In particular, the number of Syrians applying for asylum rose by , from in 2013 to in The highest number of applicants was registered in Germany ( applicants), Sweden (81 200), Italy (64 600), France (64 300) and Hungary (42 800). Chart 23: Asylum applicants, EU-28 (number) Source: (online data code: migr_asyappctza) Note: No data for Croatia for 2008 to These latest figures for 2014 marked an absolute increase of almost applicants. This is in part due to a considerably higher number of applicants from Syria, Eritrea, Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99), Afghanistan and Ukraine and to a lesser extent from Iraq, Serbia, Nigeria and Gambia. Table 20: Top 30 citizenships of asylum seekers in the EU-28 Member States, 2013 and 2014 Source: (online data code: migr_asyappctza) Note: Data are rounded to the nearest 5. June 2015 I 31

32 Asylum applicants from Syria rose to , 20% of the total from all non-eu countries. Afghani citizens accounted for 7% of the total, while Kosovars and Eritrean citizens accounted for 6% and Serbians for 5%. Among the 30 main groups of citizenship of asylum applicants in the EU-28 in 2014, the highest relative increase compared to 2013 was recorded for individuals from Ukraine. There were also considerable increases in relative terms in the number of applicants from several African countries (Gambia, Eritrea, Senegal, Mali, Sudan and Nigeria), two Middle Eastern countries (Syria and Iraq) and Afghanistan, as well as Western Balkan countries (Kosovo, Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina), and large increases of applicants of unknown origin and stateless applicants. The largest relative fall in applicants, among these 30 countries, was recorded for Russia, with the number of Russian asylum seekers more than halved between 2013 and Table 21: Five main citizenships of (non-eu) asylum applicants, by Member State, 2014 Source: (online data code: migr_asyappctza) Notes: Data are rounded to the nearest 5. (1) Stateless, also 20. (2) Algeria, Belarus, Georgia and Mali: also 5. (3) Bangladesh, Egypt and Nigeria: also 20. (4) Nigeria: also 60. (5) Mali: also 20. (6) Somalia: also 20. Syrians accounted for the highest number of applicants in 11 of the 28 EU Member States, including applicants in Germany (the highest number of applicants from a single country to one of the Member States in 2014) and applicants in June 2015 I 32

33 Sweden. Some Serbians and Eritreans also applied for asylum in Germany and Eritreans in Sweden. The other two Member States that received at least asylum applicants in 2014 from a single group of citizens were Hungary ( Kosovars) and Italy ( Nigerians). In 2014, Germany had the highest number of asylum seekers from outside the EU-28 ( ), two and a half times as many as the number of applicants Sweden had (81 200) see Table 22. Italy ( applicants), France (64 300), Hungary (42 800), the United Kingdom (31 700), Austria (28 000), the Netherlands (24 500) and Belgium (22 700) followed. The total number of asylum-seekers in these nine Member States accounted for 90% of the EU-28 total in The number of asylum applicants in 2014 more than doubled from 2013 in Italy (an increase of 143%), Hungary (126%) and Denmark (105%), while it more than halved in Croatia (-58%) and nearly halved in Poland (-47%). Nearly 4 in every 5 (79%) asylum-seekers in the EU-28 in 2014 were under 35 (see Table 22). Those aged accounted for slightly more than half (54%) of the total number of applicants, while minors under 18 accounted for one quarter (26%). This age distribution for asylum applicants was common in the vast majority of the EU Member States, with most applicants usually being those aged There was one exception to this pattern: Poland had more asylum applicants under 18. Table 22: Number of (non-eu) asylum applicants in the EU Member States, by age distribution, 2014 Source: (online data codes: migr_asyappctza and migr_asyunaa) Note: Data are rounded to the nearest 5. Due to the use of rounded figures in these calculations the sum of all age groups does not always equal 100%. More than asylum-seekers granted protection In 2014, almost half (45%) of EU-28 first instance asylum decisions resulted in positive outcomes refugee or subsidiary protection status, or an authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons. This was considerably lower (18%) for final instance decisions (based on appeal or review). June 2015 I 33

34 In absolute numbers, a total of almost persons were granted refugee status in the EU-28 in 2014 (first instance and final instance decisions), subsidiary protection status and an authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons. Around people received positive decisions at first instance in the EU-28 in 2014 (of which were granted refugee status, were granted subsidiary protection and were granted an authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons) see Table 23. A further persons received positive final instance decisions in 2014 (of which were granted refugee status, subsidiary protection and humanitarian status) see Table 24. Table 23: First instance decisions on (non-eu) asylum applications, 2014 Source: (online data code: migr_asydcfsta) Notes: Data are rounded to the nearest 5. (1) Excluding decisions in Austria. (2) 2013 data. Table 24: Final instance decisions on (non-eu) asylum applications, 2014 Source: (online data code: migr_asydcfina) Notes: Data are rounded to the nearest 5. (1) Excluding decisions in Austria. (2) 2013 data. June 2015 I 34

35 The highest number of positive asylum decisions (both at first and final instance) in 2014 was recorded in Germany (47 600), followed by Sweden (33 000), Italy (20 800), France (20 600), the United Kingdom (14 100) and the Netherlands (13 300). Altogether, these six Member States accounted for 81% of the total number of positive decisions issued in the EU out of 3 persons granted protection in the EU-28 was Syrian The largest group of beneficiaries of protection status in the EU in 2014 were citizens of Syria ( or 37% of the total number of persons granted protection status in the 27 Member States for which data are available), followed by citizens of Eritrea ( or 8%) and Afghanistan ( or 8%). Together, these three accounted for more than half of all persons granted protection status in the EU in Chart 24: Beneficiaries of asylum protection in 2014, by citizenship, EU-28 Source: (online data codes: migr_asydcfsta and migr_asydcfina) Notes: Data for Austria not available. June 2015 I 35

36 Residence permits More than 2.3 million first residence permits issued in the EU-28 In 2013, 2.36 million first residence permits 7 were issued in the EU-28 to non-eu citizens, up by 13% from 2012 but down by 7.0% from The fall from 2008 is mainly due to the fall in the number of first permits issued for employment reasons (from 0.8 million in 2008 to 0.5 million in 2013). In 2013, 29% of first residence permits were issued for family reasons, 20% for education, 23% for employment reasons and 29% for other reasons. Chart 25: First residence permits issued by reason, , EU-28 Source: (online data code: migr_resfirst) The United Kingdom issued the highest number of first permits in the EU in 2013 with , followed by Poland with , Italy with , France with , Germany with and Spain with These six countries accounted for more than 78% of all first permits issued in the EU to non-eu citizens. The highest number of first permits was issued for other reasons 8 with , followed by family-related reasons with of permits; of permits were issued for employment reasons while less than a half a million permits were issued for education reasons. With around permits, Poland is the Member State with the highest number of permits issued for employment reasons, followed by the United Kingdom ( ) and Italy (80 700). In Lithuania, Poland and Cyprus more than half of all permits issued were issued for reasons related to employment. In some other countries (Denmark, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) permits issued for employment reasons also represented the largest proportion of all permits issued. 7 Residence permit means any authorisation valid for at least 3 months issued by the authorities of a Member State allowing a non-eu citizen to stay legally on its territory. If the national laws and administrative practices of a Member State allow for specific categories of long-term visa or immigration status to be granted instead of residence permits, such visas and status grants are included in these statistics. First residence permit means a residence permit issued for the first time. A residence permit is also considered to be a first permit if the time gap between the expiry of the previous permit and the start of validity of the new permit is at least 6 months. 8 Other reasons include permits issued for residence only (e.g. pensioners with sufficient financial means), international protection status (including refugee status and subsidiary protection), humanitarian reasons, permits issued to non-asylum-related unaccompanied minors, victims of trafficking in human beings and other reasons not specified (e.g. beneficiaries of national regularisation programmes, diplomats). June 2015 I 36

37 Table 25: Total number of first residence permits issued by reason, in 2013 Source: (online data code: migr_resfirst) Ukrainians granted most first residence permits in the EU-28 The highest number of first residence permits in the EU was issued to the citizens of the Ukraine ( ), followed by India ( ), the United States ( ), China ( ), the Philippines ( ) and Morocco ( ). These six citizenships account for about 42% of all permits issued in the EU. Table 26: Main citizenship groups granted a first residence permit in the EU-28 and selected EU Member States issuing the permit, in 2013* Source: (online data code: migr_resfirst) * Member States selected here are those with the highest number of residence permits issued in The distribution of citizenships granted a first permit varies depending on the reason considered. Moroccans represent the largest group granted a permit for family reasons (66 800), followed by Indians (43 300) and Chinese (34 400). Chinese citizens (99 200), US citizens (42 500) and Brazilians (24 000) are the largest groups receiving an education permit, while Ukrainians ( ), Indians (53 200) and US citizens (38 900) are the top citizenships granted an employment-related permit. June 2015 I 37

38 Table 27: Main citizenship groups granted a first residence permit in the EU-28 and selected EU Member States issuing the permit, by reason, in 2013* Source: (online data code: migr_resfirst) * Member States selected here are those with the highest number of residence permits issued in For some non-eu citizens the reasons for immigrating into the EU are mixed. For certain citizens there are specific migration patterns reflecting their reasons for immigration. While family-related reasons are predominant among Moroccans, Russians and Turks granted EU residence permits, nearly two thirds of Ukrainians are granted employment-related permits. For Chinese and Brazilian citizens the main reason is education, while other reasons are predominant for persons from the Philippines and Belarus. Chart 26: Main citizenship groups granted a new residence permit, by reason, 2013, EU-28 Source: (online data code: migr_resfirst) June 2015 I 38

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